Choosing how to make a salt

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1. Salts and solubility
2. Preparing salts and their behaviour in air
3. A salt is an ionic product
4. Naming salts from the parent acid
5. Normal salts
6. Acid salts
7. Basic salts
8. Double salts
9. Hydrated and anhydrous salts
10. Water of crystallisation
11. Salts that always dissolve
12. Chloride and sulphate exceptions
13. Most carbonates and hydroxides do not dissolve
14. Choosing how to make a salt
15. Preparing a salt from acid and alkali
16. Preparing a salt from acid and an insoluble base
17. Preparing a salt from acid and a carbonate
18. Preparing a salt from acid and a metal
19. When the metal will not make the salt
20. Precipitation of insoluble salts
21. Ionic equations for precipitation
22. Filtering, washing and drying a precipitate
23. Crystallising a soluble salt
24. Efflorescence
25. Deliquescence and hygroscopy
26. Magadi soda as a salt
27. Kenyan table salt
28. Salts in food, farm, clinic and industry
29. Safety when preparing salts
30. Putting salts together